Before & After Challenge

I Heart Faces -Week 34 - "Before & After" Challege - September 1, 2009

We’d love for you to still share photos during this week, so we are going to try out something new this week…a “Before and After” feature where we all can write about just how much our photography and photo editing has improved since we first became seriously interested in photography. ...(read all the details on their website)

I think this week might be my chance to express my feelings about a few things. I almost always prefer the image that is closest to the original. I do not care for over-modified, over-stylized, over-processed images. WYSIWYG, or What You See Is What You Get. That's my motto. I will never win a contest at I Heart Faces, because I do not alter my photos very much. A little contrast difference, a little dodging or burning, but not much more.

Whew. I got that off my chest. OK, now to submit some photos for this week. I have learned that my digital photos sometimes do need a little enhancing. Photo #1 is from 2005, and photo #2 is from August 2009.

photo #1, I had just started using a digital camera. Vista, age 1.



photo #2, from August 2009. Vista, age 5.